A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight SS Tyler Spangler 4 G 3-16 1 2B 1 HR 3 RBI 4 BB 4 K .188/.350/.438 With the regular season over it is worth checking in on the Phillies 2026 first round pick. He hit .176/.310/.294 in his 9 games with the Threshers, which isn’t a meaningful sample size, … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF Carson DeMartini 6 G 8-17 3 2B 1 HR 3 RBI 5 BB 2 K 2 SB .471/.591/.824 DeMartini entered the year in need of health and redemption from a poor end to the year with Reading. He had a fine first month plus of the season, with his … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Caden Bogenpohl 10 G 11-38 3 2B 1 HR 9 RBI 1 BB 10 K Against Ft Myers Bogenpohl hit the hardest ball by a Phillies player of any level in the Statcast era at 117.1 mph. On his 42 batted balls as a pro he has a 90th … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Edwin Ramirez 4 G 8-14 3 2B 2 RBI 1 BB 3 K 1 SB .571/.600/.786 Ramirez was supposed to sign with the Marlins in the last signing period and then signed with the Phillies a month into the 2026 signing period. He missed most of the spring and … Read more
Deadline Recap and Other Notes I wrote about the major trades of the deadline on Monday when they happened, but now we have two smaller trades and some settled dust to get through. First was the RHP Nolan Hoffman for RHP Manuel Colon. Colon is a small 19 year old right handed reliever with a … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Jonathan Hogart 5 G 9-19 1 2B 3 HR 14 RBI 5 BB 6 K .474/.560/1.000 Much like former teammate Nathan Humphreys, Hogart was brought in as an undrafted free agent by the Phillies in 2025. Hogart rarely chases, and aggressive in the zone, but has real contact issues … Read more
My recap of Day 1 of the Phillies draft was on the harsh side, and no real amount of things they could do on Day 2 was really going to change that. It was clear they had allocated a large amount of their draft resources towards signing Tyler Spangler away from Stanford, and that they … Read more
MLB Scheduled day 2 of the draft to cover rounds 5 to 20. It did so opposite the Futures Game and MLB games. It also removes the clean break between picks with slots and those without, so a reminder any pick in round 11 to 20 costs the bonus amount minus $150,000. I would expect … Read more